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It’s a new day!

Nov 11th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 215

Well, I’ve decided there must be a reason I can’t bring myself to blog. I figure I’m either one of those Obamazombies in that hilarious Onion video or it’s because I’m still trying to get through this fascinating and very long series in Newsweek that takes us behind-the-scenes of the Obama and McCain campaigns (though, [...]

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This blog will resume after election day

Nov 1st, 2008 by Joe Newman | 145

I decided that I wasn’t going to sit this election out. If Sen. Barack Obama loses this election, I wanted to be able to look myself in the eye the next day and say that I did everything I could. So, I hooked up with two other D.C.-area folks and drove down to Salem, Va. [...]

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Poverty: What are you going to do about it?

Oct 15th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 5

Old Ed Pulver is surely long dead by now. The fact is, he wasn’t doing so well when I met him, which was 20 years ago when I was a junior at the University of Florida. He walked into my college newsroom one afternoon in his grungy, stained clothes and announced that he wanted [...]

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Protesting the IMF: Letting sleeping dogs lie

Oct 12th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 41

This was no Battle in Seattle. No Combat in the Capitol. Not even a dust up in D.C. Despite a lot of Internet chatter, the planned late night march aimed at waking up the delegates to the International Monetary Fund looked like a bust by the time I left about 2 a.m. Of course, all [...]

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Time for a Change (.org)?

Oct 9th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 28

Change.org launched its redesigned Web site this week. I never spent too much time on their old site, so I can’t really compare the before and after. However, what I’ve seen of the after is pretty encouraging.
I’m not quite sure how many more social networks I can maintain without suffering serious overload but I’m going [...]

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What’s a few billion dollars between friends?

Sep 26th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 4

So I considered suspending my blog and offering my services to Congressional leaders to help them hammer out a sensible solution to our looming economic disaster.
But they didn’t really seem interested in what I had to say. So screw ‘em. I decided to march to the White House to protest the $700 billion bailout, instead.
I [...]

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